"Automotive industry stops trying to turn vehicles into living rooms and entertainment centers, and starts focusing upon the improvement of car system security."
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But I doubt if I'll ever see that headline in my lifetime....
Why does tech insist on updated stuff that ends up frustrating and annoying users to get an overall UI improvement of %0.01? Come on, guys, go work on something useful or make the bits behind the UI better.
That's TiVo's big problem. They've been adjusting the UI lately, and with each iteration it looks like they are introducing more bugs than they remove. TiVo's quality control level has been dropping drastically.
... Increasingly mobile consumer electronics are just vehicles for ads, analytics, and giving up my privacy... and any app which makes use of this is more of the same....
So I'm not the only person who thinks that apps on mobile devices are written more for the purpose of user data harvesting than anything else.
It's been almost three months since the Apple Watch launched, and the tiny device hasn't taken people's wrists by storm. That's not to say it's a failure
Whether it is a failure or not depends upon Apple's expectations for the device.
If Apple Watch is selling at a rate of only one-tenth of what Apple expected, then it is indeed a failure.
and which OS platform doesn't have a list of exploits and vulnerabilities as long as an elephants trunk over the last decade?
The current thread is about Windows, and that is why I mentioned Windows. You can call it "born for prejudice or ignorance". I prefer to call it "staying on topic".
Watch what Apple does, not what Apple execs say they are going to do.
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I have to wonder if this decision to monetize customer data is an indication that Apple sees its profit growth slowing down, and Apple is now looking for new revenue streams to make up the difference?
One time when I visited Rotterdam (wonderful people and a great city, btw) I saw some street construction near the hotel I stayed in. The street was paved with bricks. Instead of using a jackhammer to get through the street's surface, the workers just dug up the bricks, did their work, smoothed out the surface and re-installed the bricks. When they were done, it looked like they were never there.
So it seems more like a matter of replacing those bricks with plastic ones, as bricks are already being used for road surfaces.
This is the first step to Windows as a Service. I know Microsoft has mentioned WaaS previously, and quickly backtracked when the uproar struck.
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But Microsoft is not one to give up. Once Microsoft has the masses auto-upgrading their copies of Windows, the next step in the plan is probably to start charging a monthly fee for the honor of continuing to have Windows activated each month.
Where else will Microsoft get enough revenue to support the bloated Redmond bureaucracy, now that there won't be any more big versions of Windows to sell?
If Microsoft thinks it will be automatically updating my PCs then, first and foremost, Microsoft has to show that it has significantly increased the robustness of its QA team.
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There have been far too many Windows Update problems lately, with serious ramifications for those experiencing those problems.
The last thing I want to happen to my PC is for it to be bricked by a Windows Update that occurred "without any additional notice".
...We'll take all this as a signal that we're starting to compare favorably with human drivers....
When the self-driving cars can navigate the snow and obstacles of a Northeast winter, then I'll be impressed. Until then, the self-driving cars are little more than an expensive toy.
These ginormous data centers are far more efficient per gigabyte of data stored and processed than the typical home computing setup.
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On the other hand, you are effectively donating all your data to some third party knowing that they will be mining it for information to sell, and with little more than a piece of paper to assure you can get it back.
It is too much about telling me what I want to do, and not enough about letting me do what I want.
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Every time I see one of these GNOME fanboi articles on/. I try installing GNOME and using it for a couple of weeks. And every time I wind up removing GNOME because it just does not do what I need. GNOME is limiting.
How can something like that be said for a new programming language whose project was just announced this month, and is currently little more than a laboratory curiosity?
imo, some carriers (AT&T, are you listening?) use marginal techniques to make you buy more data. I'd make sure a carrier's apps are not sucking up my data allotment.
...many North American and European bumblebees are failing to "track" warming by colonizing new habitats north of their historic range....
Maybe bumblebees select habitats to colonize based more upon the daylight patterns than temperatures, and that is why they are not following the warmth as it moves towards the poles?
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It's not the gps capabilities I mind. It is the sharing/selling of the accumulated data that I mind.
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But I doubt if I'll ever see that headline in my lifetime....
That is, when someone hacks into the weak security systems that are on cars nowadays, the headlights can be controlled and aimed remotely.
Why does tech insist on updated stuff that ends up frustrating and annoying users to get an overall UI improvement of %0.01? Come on, guys, go work on something useful or make the bits behind the UI better.
That's TiVo's big problem. They've been adjusting the UI lately, and with each iteration it looks like they are introducing more bugs than they remove. TiVo's quality control level has been dropping drastically.
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Version updates:
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Security and other interim updates:
... Increasingly mobile consumer electronics are just vehicles for ads, analytics, and giving up my privacy ... and any app which makes use of this is more of the same....
So I'm not the only person who thinks that apps on mobile devices are written more for the purpose of user data harvesting than anything else.
It's been almost three months since the Apple Watch launched, and the tiny device hasn't taken people's wrists by storm. That's not to say it's a failure
Whether it is a failure or not depends upon Apple's expectations for the device.
If Apple Watch is selling at a rate of only one-tenth of what Apple expected, then it is indeed a failure.
and which OS platform doesn't have a list of exploits and vulnerabilities as long as an elephants trunk over the last decade?
The current thread is about Windows, and that is why I mentioned Windows. You can call it "born for prejudice or ignorance". I prefer to call it "staying on topic".
The paranoia is amazing
Considering the exploit record of Microsoft Windows, I'd say his paranoia is quite justified.
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Indeed, if only Microsoft were as paranoid about people exploiting vulnerability vectors into Windows.......
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I have to wonder if this decision to monetize customer data is an indication that Apple sees its profit growth slowing down, and Apple is now looking for new revenue streams to make up the difference?
One time when I visited Rotterdam (wonderful people and a great city, btw) I saw some street construction near the hotel I stayed in. The street was paved with bricks. Instead of using a jackhammer to get through the street's surface, the workers just dug up the bricks, did their work, smoothed out the surface and re-installed the bricks. When they were done, it looked like they were never there. So it seems more like a matter of replacing those bricks with plastic ones, as bricks are already being used for road surfaces.
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But Microsoft is not one to give up. Once Microsoft has the masses auto-upgrading their copies of Windows, the next step in the plan is probably to start charging a monthly fee for the honor of continuing to have Windows activated each month.
Where else will Microsoft get enough revenue to support the bloated Redmond bureaucracy, now that there won't be any more big versions of Windows to sell?
...from a practical standpoint, this just makes sense....
My concern is not about the updates occurring automatically.
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My concern is about the low quality of recent updates from Microsoft.
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There have been far too many Windows Update problems lately, with serious ramifications for those experiencing those problems.
The last thing I want to happen to my PC is for it to be bricked by a Windows Update that occurred "without any additional notice".
...We'll take all this as a signal that we're starting to compare favorably with human drivers....
When the self-driving cars can navigate the snow and obstacles of a Northeast winter, then I'll be impressed. Until then, the self-driving cars are little more than an expensive toy.
...And the biggest earthquake in the US wasn't ...
It is not about "was", it is about "will be".
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What is the likelihood of another quake of that magnitude occurring in Tennessee in the next 100 years? 500 years?
... the quake will show how stunningly unprepared that region will be for the ensuing catastrophe.
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On the other hand, you are effectively donating all your data to some third party knowing that they will be mining it for information to sell, and with little more than a piece of paper to assure you can get it back.
They are so full of themselves, they think they control the world.
. /. I try installing GNOME and using it for a couple of weeks. And every time I wind up removing GNOME because it just does not do what I need. GNOME is limiting.
Every time I see one of these GNOME fanboi articles on
If you do not yearn for a cure, you may stop looking for one.
How can something like that be said for a new programming language whose project was just announced this month, and is currently little more than a laboratory curiosity?
Maybe the solution is not to give the journalist exclusivity but to reduce or eliminate the filing expense?
imo, some carriers (AT&T, are you listening?) use marginal techniques to make you buy more data. I'd make sure a carrier's apps are not sucking up my data allotment.
...many North American and European bumblebees are failing to "track" warming by colonizing new habitats north of their historic range. ...
Maybe bumblebees select habitats to colonize based more upon the daylight patterns than temperatures, and that is why they are not following the warmth as it moves towards the poles?